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  1. 16th October 2011, 05:43 PM #1
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    Default More from the National Technical Museum in Prague

    I should say that this is the most impressive transport museum I have encountered. The exhibits are all beautifully displayed and maintained. The main exhibition hall had the most evocative smell. Grease, oil, dried petrol, leather, rubber and steel. Perfume!

    One of my favourites was a monoplane built by Jan Kaspar in 1911, based on a Bleriot he had flown previously. He improved on the French design by replacing the 3 cylinder Anzani motor with a more powerful 6.3 litre 70 hp Daimler motor.

    Jan's little plane shared the crowded airspace with a number of other Czech machines. The photos I have taken aren't flash because I could not hold the camera steady.

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  3. 16th October 2011, 07:30 PM #2
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    Oh... I am in rapture. thanks so much for posting these. I love early Aircraft.

    (When I was a kid I "helped" restoration of the Albatros DVa now in the AWM, and have left them ever since...)

    I lost my entire collection of Flight mag from 1909-50's and Aero from 1911-1917, in the Jan floods...

    I noticed an early Russian aircraft I think a Led in the Background. (do have any ref library now).. any photos of it.???

    regards, Sandy
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  4. 16th October 2011, 09:16 PM #3
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    Those pictures remind me of Clive Cussler's latest book "The Race"
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  5. 16th October 2011, 09:26 PM #4
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    Looking at the pics reminds me as a kid we used to use "dope"to glue and stiffen the fabric on our models. Used to wonder why things were so rosy back then. Could you imagine doing that to the aircraft shown. Would stay high for ever and ever.
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  6. 16th October 2011, 10:45 PM #5
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    They certainly were lightheaded days.

    Then some bugger invented heat shrink iron on plastic!!
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